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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 124:3-6

Psalms 124:3-6. They had swallowed us up quick They had speedily and utterly destroyed us, as Korah and his company were, Numbers 16:0. The proud waters had gone over, &c. Our enemies, compared to proud waters for their great multitude, swelling rage, and mighty force. The Lord hath not given us a prey to their teeth A metaphor taken from wild beasts, which tear and devour their prey with their teeth. It is here intimated that the enemies of God’s people have no power whatever... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Psalms 124:1-8

Psalms 120-124 To Jerusalem for worshipEach of the fifteen Psalms 120:0 to 134 is entitled ‘A Song of Ascents’ (RSV; NIV). These psalms were apparently sung by worshippers from the country areas as they made the journey up to Jerusalem for the various annual festivals.Whether or not the psalms were written for this purpose, they have been arranged in a sequence that reflects the feelings of the travellers. They provide expressions of worship for the travellers as they set out from distant... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Psalms 124:6

"Blessed be Jehovah,Who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers:The snare is broken, and we are escaped.Our help is in the name of Jehovah,Who made heaven and earth."The terrible danger of the situation Israel survived was concentrated in that hostile Philistine army. They had come up "to seek David" (2 Samuel 5:117), for the purpose of killing him, exactly as they had destroyed Saul. Moreover they possessed at that time the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Psalms 124:6

6, 7. The figure is changed to that of a rapacious wild beast ( :-), and then of a fowler ( :-), and complete escape is denoted by breaking the net. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 124:1-8

Psalms 124David voiced praise to God for not allowing the pagan nations that surrounded Israel to defeat and assimilate God’s people. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 124:6-8

2. Praise for the Lord’s protection 124:6-8David next praised Yahweh for not allowing Israel’s enemies to tear her to pieces as a vicious animal tears its prey. Israel had escaped as a bird that flies free when someone releases the trap that snared it. Israel’s helper was Yahweh, not any human deliverer (cf. Psalms 121:8). He is the Maker of heaven and earth (cf. Psalms 115:15; Psalms 121:2), the strongest of all deliverers.This psalm and Psalms 121 both commemorate God’s preservation of the... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 124:1-8

This Ps. is sung at the Feast of Purim to commemorate the deliverance from Haman. It is a gladsome lyric, thanking Jehovah for escape from heathen destruction, and may well have been composed under the impulse of deliverance from the Babylonian exile. In its formation it illustrates a particular rhythmic effect, viz. the ascending scale of a series of phrases.1. Now may Israel say] what Israel says is Psalms 124:1-5. 3. Quick] RV ’alive,’ as Assyria and Babylon did to many nations. 4. Stream]... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Psalms 124:1-8

Psalms 124:0 When the conflict was over, the venerable Theodore Beza, eighty years old, returned solemn thanks, and gave out the 124th Psalm to be sung. Every year since, on 12 December, it has been sung in Geneva Dr. Tholuck of Halle used to tell an anecdote of his father-in-law. He was a convert from Roman Catholicism; and as it happens sometimes that though the mind may be entirely emancipated, the desire for priestly absolution returns, his son-in-law asked him before he died, if he had any... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 124:1-8

Psalms 124:1-8A SEQUENCE may be traced connecting this with the two adjacent psalms. In Psalms 123:1-4, patient resignation sighed for deliverance, which here has been received and has changed the singer’s note into jubilant and wondering praise; while, in the next little lyric, we have the escaped Israel established in Jerusalem, and drawing omens of Divine guardianship from its impregnable position, on a mountain girt by mountains. This psalm is an outgush of the first rapture of astonishment... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Psalms 124:1-8

Psalm 120-134 The Psalms of Degrees Fifteen brief Psalms follow, called songs of degrees, or, ascents. They were in all probability used by Israel going up to Jerusalem three times a year to celebrate the feasts of the Lord--”Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, a testimony for Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.” They are indeed Psalms of “the goings-up” for we rise higher and higher as we read through them. Prophetically they give us again the steps from trial and... read more

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 124:3-6

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Psalms 124:1-8

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Psalms 124:6

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Psalms 124:6

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 124:1-8

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 124:6-8

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 124:1-8

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Psalms 124:1-8

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 124:1-8

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Psalms 124:1-8

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